Joe Suck & Dim Tim: The FOX SPORTS IS SATAN thread

7.7 career war

one down, one to go

RT @EricFisherSBJ: Fox Sports announces Tim McCarver will not work past the 2013 season.

hooray!

this year: mute button

ohh lord thank u for listenin to these prayers

they will only find someone worse to replace him, you realize that right?

Steve Lyons is available, isn't he?

free steve stone

McCarver and Mr Koo's Game (I was at Shea that day):

http://www.sbnation.com/2013/3/27/4153312/tim-mccarver-retirement

I am already cursed with Steve Lyons who does all the dodgers road games thank you very much.

no doubt it'll be Kevin Millar or Harold Reynolds

Guessing Fox employee Eric Karros

Kevin Millar is worse than ebola

one of the most painful broadcasts ive had to endure was a Sat afternoon FOX game with Joe Buck + Kevin Millar. All the folksy shit gave Buck a ton of discernable contempt and auditory eyerolls. It got so rough I actually started feeling bad for Millar. So no, they won't be a future pairing.

i'd forgotten how horrendous Eric Karros is. And Nolan Ryan doing NASCAR promos -- my life is complete.

It wouldn't surprise me if McCarver didn't even make it through this season, and had to announce he's got Alzheimers or something. This is really sad to listen to.

Buck is attempting to grow a crop of gravitas or credibility or something on his face.

maura johnston @maura

joe buck just said 'no duh'

Such an honor to be watching this meaningful Yankees-Giants game.

Yanks still have a 1.8% shot

i watched.

the Fox package is going to be interesting next year. there is good in this as i will be able to see more Giant games on Saturday. the bad news is there will be a lot less network games going forward.

happy 72nd birthday, dim tim

http://cdn2.mocksession.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/BUCK-MCCARVER-HIGH-FIVE.gif

Buck is a pregame drinker i guess

http://www.amazinavenue.com/2013/10/23/4864484/the-case-for-tim-mccarver-30-years-ago

A Year to Remember has been empirically proven the best highlight film of all time. Find me another example of this genre that employs musical montages set to "Karn Evil #9," "Wild Boys," and "You Belong to the City." Go ahead, I defy you.

lol, J0rdan and I saw most of this during a rain delay at Citi this summer.

I don't remember McC calling the 2001 Gonzalez hit in advance, but apparently it happened. I *do* remember Deion S dumping ice on him.

Al Michaels: “Howard (Cosell) was sour and dour and took all the joy away from everybody on the crew. He had an ‘I-don’t-want-to-be-here’ attitude. When Roone Arledge made the switch, I said, ‘I’ve got McCarver?’ This was the greatest trade of all time.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/23/sports/baseball/anticipating-his-next-play-tim-mccarver-is-closing-out-an-era.html

http://cdn3.mocksession.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/2013-October-23-20-10-47.jpg

who let them wear checked shirts of slightly different scales?

I watched the clip of the Salty/Breslow play, and Tim said they've been talking "since April about how LOTS of games are lost by pitchers throwing to bases."

He's really going out on top.

Paraphrasing from last night: "I would say about 70% of swinging strike outs are on pitches out of the zone...but it depends on the pitcher."

I think that's close to true of all swinging strikes?

angell demurs: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/sportingscene/2013/10/goodbye-tim-mccarver.html

well, Roger's over 90.

http://www.baseballnation.com/2013/11/1/5056084/tim-mccarver-fox-baseball-replacement-harold-reynolds-candidates

The answer to all of this is MUTE btw

http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/12/09/tim-mccarvers-broadcasting-days-arent-over-yet/

Tim McCarver retired as Fox’s leading analyst after the World Series. But he’s not dropping the mic just yet: Fox Sports Midwest is about to hire him to do a limited number of Cardinals games next season.

JESUS CHRIST, COME ON.

dodgers hired orel away from espn

i don't mind orel too much, based off of my limited experience listening to him. and although mccarver is the devil, he is probably better than al hrabosky in the cards' booth. and yes, that is very very sad.

Dodgers replacement for vin is currently Charlie Steiner so this Orel news is music to my ears.

Orel is pretty much with old-school will-to-win crap, like McCarver you'll never hear any advanced metrics from him.

charley steiner is 64! he's like the prince charles of dodgers broadcasters

Harold Reynolds, Tom Verducci to join FOX World Series broadcast team, per report

http://www.sbnation.com/2014/2/27/5455632/tom-verducci-harold-reynolds-joe-buck-fox-baseball-2014-world-series

Good luck TV non-muters

Fox sticking a toe in the sabermetric Rubicon for NLCS Game 1

http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/10/02/fox-is-going-to-experiment-with-an-new-kind-of-commentary-for-game-1-of-the-nlcs/

Rob Neyer talks to Fangraphs about Saturday night's sabercast of Cards-Giants:

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/discussing-the-nlcs-powered-by-jabo-with-rob-neyer/

This will be awesome or a huge train wreck, there's probably no inbetween.

train wreck > Harold Reynolds

will this be avail on mlb.tv, anybody know?

not 100% sure, but i think it's not. it's a miracle that they're even playing a few of the NLCS games on mlb.tv, so it seems unlikely that they'd add on a second channel.

i'm curious to see what sabermetrics taken seriously looks like on cable without brian kenny the excited beagle

Can we get a title mod edit posthaste? ILB should afford homophobia no sanctuary.